Robert E. Park
American sociologist of the Chicago School who studied race relations, urbanization, and the city as a social laboratory.
Most quoted
"The process of assimilation is a process of interpenetration and fusion in which persons and groups acquire the memories, sentiments, and attitudes of other persons and groups and, by sharing their experience and history, are incorporated with them in a common cultural life."
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology, 1921
"The city is, above all, a state of mind, a body of customs and traditions, and of the organized attitudes and sentiments that inhere in these customs and are transmitted with this tradition."
— from The City: Suggestions for the Investigation of Human Behavior in the City Environment, 1915
"The city is a state of mind, a body of customs and traditions, and of the organized attitudes and sentiments that inhere in these customs and are transmitted with this tradition."
— from The City: Suggestions for the Investigation of Human Behavior in the City Environment, 1915
All quotes by Robert E. Park (65)
Race relations improve through education.
The crowd thinks in images, not ideas.
In the city, strangers become neighbors.
Wisdom comes from understanding social processes.
The university bridges town and gown.
Contemporaries of Robert E. Park
Other Sociologys born within 50 years of Robert E. Park (1864–1944).